The Global Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Global Eighteenth Century write by Felicity Nussbaum. This book was released on 2005-08-17. The Global Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These essays explore both literal and metaphorical crossings of the globe, addressing the cultural significance of maps, paintings, travel writing, tourist manuals, cultural identities, island gardens, and other topics in order to lend insight to our perception of global culture during the long 18th century.
The Eighteenth Centuries
The Eighteenth Centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Eighteenth Centuries write by David T. Gies. This book was released on 2018-02-02. The Eighteenth Centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, yet the connections themselves are largely unstudied. In The Eighteenth Centuries, twenty-two scholars across disciplines address the idea of plural Enlightenments and a global eighteenth century, transcending the demarcations that long limited our grasp of the period’s breadth and depth. Engaging concepts that span divisions of chronology and continent, these essays address topics ranging from mechanist biology, painted geographies, and revolutionary opera to Americanization, theatrical subversion of marriage, and plantation architecture. Weaving together many disparate threads of the historical tapestry we call the Enlightenment, this volume illuminates our understanding of the interconnectedness of the eighteenth centuries.
Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context
Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context write by Dr Christina Ionescu. This book was released on 2014-02-28. Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.
Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds
Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds write by Michael Yonan. This book was released on 2019-02-21. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from a distinguished group of scholars explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the eighteenth century. Capturing the full material diversity of eighteenth-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside far more numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of eighteenth-century art, it bridges the disciplines of art history and cultural geography, and draws attention away from any one place as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila, Beijing, Mexico City, and London as significant points on globalized map of the eighteenth-century art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds combines a broad global perspective on the history of art with careful attention to how global artistic concerns intersect with local ones, offering a framework for future studies in global art history.
Global Trade and Commercial Networks
Global Trade and Commercial Networks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Trade and Commercial Networks write by Tijl Vanneste. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Global Trade and Commercial Networks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in London and Amsterdam and French Huguenots in Lisbon.
